Leonardo The Last Supper Essay

behind Jesus’s head that way the viewer’s attention is drawn to Jesus. The painting might look like it is proportioned correctly, but in fact it is not. Jesus , who is seated, is the same size as the apostle standing on the left side of the painting. By making Jesus bigger than all the other apostles Leonardo is showing Jesus’s importance, something older artist did called hieratic perspective. Leonardo was always experimenting and his “Last Supper” is a result of his experimentation. Leonardo did not take the traditional route of painting on fresco. His new method was covering the wall with two layers of plaster. The reason being that he did not like that he had to rush if he were to paint on fresco. Leonardo also used a new medium called tempera. Tempera is a mixture of pigment, water, and egg yolk. Because this painting suffered from fading due to the tempera not taking well to the plaster, it is hard to tell what it originally must have looked like. The colors are faded which also make it hard to notice any details the painting must have had. Another detail that shows Leonardo da Vinci’s attempt to make this painting look realistic is that Jesus …show more content…
Tintoretto is said to have said “to paint like Titian and to design like Michelangelo” when describing his style of painting. He had a unique way of painting. Because he did not like to waste time he would prime his canvas with dark colors and then start to sketch and finally paint. This method would result in much of his paintings to be very dark and shadowy with flashes of light. Tintoretto’s “Last Supper” is a perfect example of Late Renaissance Mannerism combined with his style. Tintoretto was commissioned by the church of San Giorgio Maggiore to paint the Last Supper for the Benedictine monastery. It is not the typical scene we see in other paintings where the apostles have just heard Jesus’s prediction of what is going